This text will be send to Mandriva executives, hoping it'll be taken in the right consideration!
We received all official answers : read here!
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* 1) Installer
* 2) Memory requirements
* 3) Akonadi
* 4) KDE status
* 5) Hybrid Graphics support
* 6) Gnome Community Edition
1> Installer:
it seems really in a very bad shape...
I full must agree with Dwight Paige, here:
http://lists.mandriva.com/cooker/2011-07/msg00144.php
It's absolutely needed a "Free" and "PWP" DVD version like 2010.2
With new live format we need over one hour for a basic (bad) install...
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2> Memory requirements:
I full must agree with Sylvain Zucca, here:
http://lists.mandriva.com/cooker/2011-07/msg00128.php
and so,
We can use Windows Seven with 1024 Mega
We can use Mac OSX 10.6.x with 1024 Mega
but
We can't use Mandriva 2011 with 1024 Mega
at least we need 1536M (1.5Gb) just to be usable?
With 1024M we need more than 10 minutes to start live mode, then the OS is rather unusable...
I failed to understand why rosa stuff should use 512M or more...
when icon based OSes like Android should work even with 256/512M
In this way Mandriva will succeed to ship the most memory hungry OS
I heard that MDV 2011 is planned to target for 512 Mb RAM PC as minimum requirements,
and so:
or they should rewrite all rosa stuff to be much lighter,
or they should find a way where at the very first boot stage we can
choose between two different UI:
- KDE default mode (for old PC with less than 1 Gb ram)
- Mandriva Rosa mode (for recent PC with more than 1G ram)
3> Akonadi:
Personally I'd also suggest to turn off akonadi support by default,
if it's possible. Looks like akonadi eats up to 200 mb system RAM!
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4> KDE status
kde 4.6.4 has a lot problems and regressions
try to fixing it in newer kde 4.6.5 not in 4.6.4
(If they want to release 2011 with KDE 4.6, it should be the
latest - 4.6.5. With as many regressions fixed as possible!)
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5> Hybrid Graphics:
As I previously discussed here
http://mib.pianetalinux.org/mib/forum/v ... 295#p16295
I hope they are reconsidering that important thing, doing something
and for that reason I hope they switch to kernel 3.0 for next weeks!
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6> Gnome "Community Edition" Iso only unofficial support:
Take care or find those who do, at least for this last time, a DVD edition with Gnome,
although it could be classified as a "Community Edition" and not officially supported:
This is a very important point, because 50% of users still prefer Mandriva with Gnome
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bye, NicCo